Attorney Profiles

Mr. James L. Welsh III
jwelsh@pwklawyers.com

Mr. Welsh was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania on
May 9, 1963. After graduating from Lyndon Institute in
1980, Jim obtained his property, casualty and life insurance agent's license. He received his B.S. degree from Northern
Michigan University in 1986. Mr. Welsh then received his
law degree from The Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 1990.
While in law school, he was elected Editor-in-Chief of the
Cooley Law Review, graduated cum laude, was the
Chairman of The Scholastic Review Board and received
The Distinguished Student Award.

Mr. Welsh began his career as an associate at Robb, Leonard
and Muvihill in 1990 and was elected as a partner in 1997.
In 2000, he resigned and became the partner in charge of
Workers' Compensation for Weber, Goldstein, Greenberg
and Gallagher in their Pittsburgh office. As a trial attorney,
Mr. Welsh concentrates in insurance defense, with extensive
trial experience in automobile and property liability cases,
workers' compensation and toxic torts. In 1994, he was
elected by a consortium of insurance carriers to function
as national counsel for a client involved in toxic tort litigation.

He oversaw and directed claims nationwide and tried all
cases in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Mr. Welsh is
licenses in both Pennsylvania and West Virginia and he is
a member of The American Bar Association, The Pennsylvania
Bar Association and The Allegheny County Bar Association.
He has taught discovery tactics to paralegals and frequently lectures to clients on issues of general defense strategy,
toxic torts and Workers' Compensation.

Mr. Welsh resides in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, with
his wife, Melissa, and daughter Emily.